SEER is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. SEER currently collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 28 percent of the U.S. population.

2 Total Population equals the sum of the White, Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Other Race, and Two or More Races columns. Note that only the American Indian/Alaska Native populations are covered in the SEER areas of Arizona, Alaska, and Cherokee Nation.

3 Since each person could report multiple races in the 2010 Census, race-specific counts and percentages in this table are based on persons self-reporting only one race.

4 The Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese populations are also included within the "Asian" population.

5 Hispanic ethnicity is tabulated independently of race, so Hispanic persons may be of any race.

6 Greater Georgia calculated by subtracting the number for Atlanta and Rural Georgia from the Georgia state totals.

7 Greater California calculated by subtracting the number for San Francisco-Oakland, San Jose-Monterey and Los Angeles from the California state totals.

8 Only the American Indian/Alaska Native populations within these states/areas are covered by SEER.